Gott Vladimir Spiridonovich General data:
20.09.1912 - 02.06.1991
Place of birth: Harbin city, Dongbei Region, Republic of China (Taiwan)
Studied in: Kharkiv Mechanical Engineering Institute, Kharkiv Polytechnic (since 2000 National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute") ();
Key interests: cosmology, physics, philosophy. PhD Thesis: Methods of obtaining large ionic currents (1940 ); ScD Thesis: V. I. Lenin and some philosophical questions of modern physics (1962 );
Biography:
He was born on September 20, 1912 in Harbin, Manchuria (more precisely in the Dongbei region of the Republic of China (Taiwan)) in the family of a locomotive driver of the China-Eastern Railway.
He graduated from the Kharkiv Mechanical Engineering Institute of Kharkiv Polytechnic.
Then he studied at the graduate school of the Ukrainian Institute of Physics and Technology in Kharkov city.
During 1930-1940 he worked at the Ukrainian Institute of Physics and Technology, where he conducted research in the field of atomic nucleus physics.
In 1940 he defended his dissertation "Methods of obtaining large ionic currents", receiving the degree of candidate of physical and mathematical sciences.
After World War II, he focused on the study of philosophical issues in physics.
From 1957 he headed the Department of Philosophy of the Moscow Institute of Engineering Physics.
For some time, at least in 1970, he worked as head of the philosophy department at the Lenin Moscow Pedagogical Institute.
In 1962 he defended his doctoral dissertation "V. I. Lenin and some philosophical questions of modern physics.
Since 1985 he worked at the Department of Philosophy of the Academy of Social Sciences.
During 1970-1991 he was the editor-in-chief of the journal "Philosophical Sciences".
The scientist was awarded two orders of the Red Banner of Labor, the Order of the Badge of Honor, medals "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", "For the Defense of Moscow", "For Valiant Work in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945"» , “For valiant work. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of VI Lenin "," 30 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945"," 40 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 "," Veteran of Labor ".
In 1970 he received the title of Honored Scientist of the RSFSR.
He died on June 2, 1991 in Moscow.
He is a specialist in philosophical issues of physics, philosophical ontology, theory of knowledge, metaphilosophy. He is the author of about 100 scientific articles, pamphlets and monographs on physics and philosophy.
He developed the concept of general scientific categories and means of cognition (highlighting together with E. P. Semenyuk and A. D. Ursul this type of concepts and thus overcoming the traditional dichotomy "general concepts-private concepts"); studied the integrative role in the cognition of structures belonging to this type, which was of great importance for the formation of another area of conceptual interaction of philosophy and world science.
Main publications:
1. Готт В. С., М. Корсунський, Ф. Ланге Новый метод получения больших ионных токов в вакууме, 1940
2. Готт В.С. Философские вопросы современной физики:
Учебное пособие для вузов Изд. 3, перераб. 1988. 344 с.
3. Готт В.С. Удивительный неисчерпаемый познавательный мир - М. : Знание, 1974. - 224 с.
4. Готт В.С., Недзельский Ф.В. Диалектика прерывности и непрерывности в физической науке - Москва : Мысль, 1975. -. 208 с
Sources:
1 Готт В.С. Ленинский принцип неисчерпаемости движущейся материи. //Природа, 1970, №04, С.40 -М.: Наука. — 130 с.
2 mpgu.su
3 Философия Науки. Хрестоматия Коллектив авторов
4 Ключарев Г.Ф. Готт Владимир Спиридонович//Вестник РОССИЙСКОГО ФИЛОСОФСКОГО ОБЩЕСТВА
